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Development Urvi Nagrani. Prior to this certification, all electric vehicles certified for sale in California were constructed with a single manufacturer certifying the final vehicle in applications such as transit buses or passenger cars. Work trucks which tend to be built on certified chassis configurations from major manufacturers like Ford, Freightliner, Volvo, and more relied on regulatory pass throughs that were not available in electric vehicles until 2018. After Motiv got this certification, the process at CARB continued to evolve through the Zero Emission Powertrain Certification regulatory workgroups. These workgroups which Motiv continued to participate in through 2018 and 2019 ultimately lead to CARB clarifying its regulations and passing specific certifications for zero-emissions vehicles and powertrains for both electric and fuel cell vehicles in 2020. Also in 2018 Motiv launched a new partnership with RV manufacturer Winnebago beginning with the launch of all electric lung screening clinic at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco. The all-electric Mobile Lung Unit (eMLU) was built on a Ford F-53 based EPI6 all-electric chassis from Motiv Power Systems, with Samsung's NeuroLogica BodyTom Elite a portable, full-body, 32-slice CT scanner. These specialty vehicles were preceded by the announcement of an all electric bloodmobile.
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